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Description: | Fragment of a bow brooch consisting of the lower part of a flat narrow tapering bow, slightly curved in profile, embellished with a shallow channel adjacent to each edge. Part of small catch-plate survives. Surviving length 36mm, surviving maximum width 6.5mm, weight 1.5 grams. The simple form of the flat bow and small catch-plate suggest that this was probably part of a Strip Bow brooch. Strip Bow brooches are a British hinged type, derived from the Aucissa and Hod Hill types, which date to the mid first century AD (Hattatt 1985, 68). Most examples of the type are manufactured from copper alloy although some iron examples do occur. They are typified by bows of flat section, varying in profile from almost straight to highly arched in one continuous curve, with a plain foot and catch-plates which are no more than a quarter of the bow in length (Hattatt 1985, 68). Most copper alloy examples are decorated with simple tooling along the length of the bow. They are a localised southern British type which are concentrated in the Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset and southern Gloucestershire region (Hattatt 1985, 68). This example apparently forms a notable outlier of the type. | Subjects: | Strip bow | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | MacDonald, Philip | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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